BIB_ID
363038
Accession number
MA 43.8
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
1793 Apr.].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1902.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.1 cm
Notes
"Not printed" and "C 405" at the top of p. [1] in two different unknown hands.
"P. Hill?" and "Dumfries? 1793" in an unknown hand at the top of p. [1]. Date, place of writing, and recipient also based on published version of the letter.
Part of a collection of ten autograph letters signed from Robert Burns to Peter Hill. Letters in the collection are described in individual records (MA 43.1-10).
"P. Hill?" and "Dumfries? 1793" in an unknown hand at the top of p. [1]. Date, place of writing, and recipient also based on published version of the letter.
Part of a collection of ten autograph letters signed from Robert Burns to Peter Hill. Letters in the collection are described in individual records (MA 43.1-10).
Provenance
George Wilson, grandson of Peter Hill; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Pearson, 1902.
Summary
Reporting that the [Monkland Friendly Society's] treasurer is remitting the cash to Hill today, and the Committee will be meeting and placing a new order "on Monday next"; referring to an "unlucky blast," and hoping it has spared Hill.
Catalog link
Department